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MONDAY, MARCH 11,1861.
lion. T. It. R. Cobb.
Thii gantleraao paaacd through thii oitj loot
night, on hit woj from Montgomery to the
Stole OooTowthm toboeoowoh.
Mr. Cobb apeaka moot opproringly of the apir-
it end I abort of (fab Mott^omrry Coof root, ond
it noit hopeful rtiot, If tlw people ore only
uuitad,tb* Oorernment of the Confedero
ted Stole* will toon preient tneh on imponiog
orroy of the element! pi atrongtb to A* goto
of the world te to establish it firmly for oil
time. Mott ordently do we hope that thii pop
ular mjpport will bo cheerfully given.
BMAHKHOF SAMUEL MALI.. Ml
mmutiontr Prom ihorgi'l, i{fort Ikl Ol
Autmilg of Npih
• mt, py
Mcurt. Speaker a and Qentltmen sj theGe nsrat
Assembly •* v
Although 1 cauwat, with many bt my fell©* down by superior number* tba Sot th Wfti
North Carolina.
We cannot believe that the result of the elec
tion in thia State indicates that the good old
North Btato haa become Lincoloised.
The people of North Carolina have a daah of
phlegm la thelf composition, which induce!
much pondering and smoking of pipea over
every queation presented to them. They have,
besides, a dash of Quaker Freesoilism that is
a hale centrifugal, we think. Woree than this,
they have the incubus of Badgeriam repress
ing their patriotic fervors, as Sam Houatoniam
in Texas, and Crittenden ism in Kentucky, and
John Bellism in Tennessee, have been freesing
aud chokiug out. manly impulses in their re
spective domain# for these many year* past.
But, for all this, we will answer for North
Carolina with our lives. Wo are perfectly sure,
this moment, that, could the election now take
place for delegates to her Convention, North
Carolina would go for Revolution by a crush
ing majority.
We can wait patiently on the sober second
thought of her people without distrust or anx
iety as to her final decree.
Everything is working right for the final
success of Southern Independence. Indeed,
we feel, with every new development in the
fortunee of the South, that her destiny is cared
for by a merciful Providence, and that the
course of events now transpiring evinces a
wisdom above that of the men who teem to
shape it.
Hon. John J* Crittenden.
0 jr readers have seen the many rumors go
ing the rounds of the press of this gentleman’s
appointment to a seat on the 8upreme Court
Bench of the United States.
Sincerely do we hope that this rumor may
provo unfounded. Heretofore, we have thought
that Mr. Crittenden’s toleration for Abolition
fanaticism, and his equanimity amidstscens in
Congress so trying to the honorable resentments
of a Southern gentleman, were the result of a
feeble emotional nature, and bad nothing
to do with self-interest. it sounds for the
very instinct of self-respect that should fol
low universal manhood everywhere, to hear a
Southern Statesman say ha was for a Govern
ment as it was, let it do what it might. 8till,
this might be said because the man who said
it was a born tory, or a born aristocrat, or be
cause he knew, in hi# sal fishnets, that Liberty
would last at least his lifetime, or because Le
was quiet and did not wish to have his revar
ies broken by the ground-swell of Revolution.
But to baar more from the enemies of one’s
country than is to be allowed to its defenders
throughout a long and vexed controversy, and
then, at last, find a refuge in the bosom of that
enemy, from the storm which he had raised at
home, is a little too much like self-love to pass
current for philanthropy or patriotism We
htd far rather see Mr. Crittenden go out as a
mistaken or deluded stickler for a strong Gov-
ernmtnt, than as a clever, sharp-witted pot-
patriot, whose perturbations of mind never
caused him to forget number one.
The Last of**Old Back.”
The subjoined superannuated twaddle is the
last of a great light, which has, for some time
back, bean flickering in its socket. It beat*
Linooln, we think, for style. The public func
tionary claiming to ba perfeetly true U. the
House of Lancaster, but jei, not half so true
as the amid House has been to him, smacks of
dear Ireland, and that boastful promise to take
charge of the widows and orphans is a big un
dertaking for #o venerable a character. Though
we will watch the papers and see what we shall
Oto Neighbors, Friends end Fellow-Citizens :
I have not language to express the feelings
pera
who comes back to you ere long to lay his hones
at rest with your fetters. And here let me
esy, that, having visited almost every cliihe
under the sun, roy heart hss ever turned to Lan
caster an the spot where I would wish to live,
to die, and to be buried. When yet a young
man, ia for remote Russia, my heart was still
with you»fethrra,n^y friends add neighbors in
good old La Master, and although l have al
ways bean true to you, I have not beau half so
true to vou as you have to me.
Your fathers took me up when a young man,
nnd fostered and cherished me through many
longysars. All these have passed away, and
I stand before you to day as a man living In
the second generation. I feel, withal my heart,
though in the midst of posterity, these sons are
maoitentlng the same kindness which their
fathers would have done had they lived to this
day. 1 ,;
Generation# of mortal men vise, sink, and are
forgotten, but.the kindness of pie paatgenera-
w?a to *»e, now a<> couapicuons m their sons,
T.'I come home to pass
catt nkver be forgotten.
the remainder of iny d»ya among you as a
good citizen, a faithful friend and advtier to
those who may heed adriee, and a benefector
• te the widows and the fatherless, f Loud ap
plause.)
All my politioel aspirations hare departed.
All 1 have done during a somewhat protracted
pwblfo L/e bps,peeked mi# history, if l have
done aught to offend a single citisen, l now
aiocereiy ask his pardon. 1 done by repeating
e ftenlimhnt dear to my heart: God grant- that
the CoqfttltuUoQ and Union shall be perpetual,
n*id continue a shield and profectioQ to our-
•elves end our children forever.
Mr. Buchanan retired amid enthusiastic ap
plause. Hethoa resumed hiecarrageaad was
enorvied te Wheatland* n
" Iftiu. Cr C. Cley,
Alabama, has gone fie ft* Paul, MlnuecneU^
tty benefit jf hiskaaith. v { *‘ J *
citizens, greet this food old commonwealth as
the lend of my birth, yet with still greater
numbers of them, I can claim her as the homo
of my allocators, and participate wilh just
pride in her historio fame I may JfeiigUata
myself upon being commissioned in this ae-
efevr liberties, te • people who
were the first to take open sod decisive ground
against unconstitutional taxation—who first
proclaimed the principles of American inde
pendence, and upon whose soil the anus of the
soldiers of liberty were first crowned with vic
tory. To the descohdautsof tuoh iten I confi
dently make my appeal, and in bearing to this
General Attorney a message from her ancient
confederate and ally, and in asking her coope
ration in the important step we have taken in
ooramon with several others of our sisters, T
need hardly assure her that Georgia has no
disposition either to dictate or offer unsolicited
advice.
These two States have teen ever united by
the elosest ties—no rivalry in the past has
sprung up between them, and their amicable
relations have never been disturbed. To you
we ara indebted for no inconsiderable portion
of a population which we flatter ourselves has
not deteriorated by being transplanted, and
which we can truly say is do discredit to the
kindred and friends they left behind them.—
Shoulder to shoulder Georgia and North Caro
lina marched through the revolution—they
joined their counsels and united their wisdom
in forming that compact of government called
the Constitution of the United Statej, and were
mainly instrumsntal in procuring provisions
in that instrument for the increase and protec
tion of slavery. Thus connected and bouud to
you, Georgia would have deemed herself defi
cient in the courtesy and the respect sbo owes
you not to have given you timely information
that she had dissolved her connexion with the
late United States of America, and resumed the
powers which she had delegated to that gov
ernment, and to invite you to cooperate with
her and other States that have or may hereaf
ter secede from the Union iu the formation of a
Southern Confederacy.
She will welcome you Lack to her warm em
brace, and on account of the brief separation,
feel only the more near when you return. She
assures you that among her citiaens
“ There are eyes will mark your coming,
And look brighter when you come."
8be knows she can Buffer no peril that does
not equally assail you—that your interest is
her interest—your honor is her honor—your
cause is her cause, and that the same destiny,
be it "gloomy or bright," awaits us both. She,
therefore, asks to lay before you, through her
humble Representative, tbs oausei which have
impelled her to this separation—believing that
they carry with them the force ond dignity of
truth, she indulges the hope that they will
strike the great popular heart and miud of
your State as they struck hers, and will reault
in harmonious and united action upon the part
of her Southern sisters. In dissolving our con
nection wilh the late government of the United
States we claim not to have overthrown the
work of our fathers, but that our Northern con
federates seized with UDfilial hands the pillars
of the Constitution, and overthrew the temple
of our liberties. No act of bad faith haa stain
ed our escutcheon. We have kept the cove
nants of our fathers, and with the blessing of
a kind and favoring Providence, we will, out
of the same materials, reconstruct tbo noble
old edifice. The government had scarcely been
put into operation before our pnculiar property
was sought to be assailed in the Legislature of
our General Government by a class of persons,
who, however meek and gentle they may have
been, and however blameless their lives in
other respects, certainly contributed nothing’
to the establishment of the republic. This ap
peal was made to uien fresh from the battle
fields of the revolution, asd we l apprised of
the scope and meaning of the Coni promisee
contained in the Constitution and bond of our
Union, and benoe, as might have be*n antici
pated, was unsuccessful.
It was necessary to the increase of our
strength and the consolidation of our power aa
a people, that we should acquire from France
the vast territory extending from the mouth to
the sources of the "Father of Waters,’’ and in
1803, the Louisiana territory became, by treaty,
a portion of oar rich domain. In every foot of
this territory the right to hold slaves sxisted,
and this right was distinctly recognised, and
its proteotion guaranteed by aft article of tbat
treaty. That there was opposition to this meas-
ure, it would be idle to deny, aid opposition,
too, on account of the protection afford c 1 to
slavery: but this opposition was confined to
the people of New England, who seemed to be
unmindful of the rich benefactions conferred
upon all the 8Utes, by Georgia, North Carolina,
and Virginia, in the donations of their ^aet
public territory to the General Government—
Again, in 1812 the commerce of the Eastern
Statse was attacked by a foraign power, aud
almost driven from the ocean. We of the
South had little pecuniary internet in this con
test, but it involved our honor, aud against
their protest we went to war with the mistress
of the aaar, and the laurel-crowned field of N.
Orleans stands to day, aa it will through all
time, tke vindication of the one and the pro
teotion of the other. Nor did our liberality
stop here. Not content with giving them a
monopoly of ship building and the coalting
trade, we stimulated and encouraged their In
dustry by bounties upon their pursuits. The
war which terminated so gloriously, had crip
pled, and to some extent, exhausted their re
sources and embarrassed their manufacturing
interests; again we taxed ourselves for their
befceftt, and sought hj another generous sacri
fice to augment their prosperity.
In IHt, a SUte formed o«t of the Louisiana
Territory, in which oar rights as Slaveholders
wore reoegnized, nnd protected by tbeaupr«<e«
law of the land, presented a Constitntion Re-
publican in form, and asked for ad mission into
the Unfen upon terms of Equality wkh tie
other States. Hop wire her advances met by
ear Northern eo*Jader*U*-fry these people
npeh Whcsa we had so gsneronaly lavished
beifefitoShd bottXlesf WM her bdvetrfi gfieet*
’ I. th.t war u ifnm.ua. »c-
nrjf. Fprattling tha reault of
I tke tlnffllt, VMM eppoeipg the progreee of our
•leffpimtoh edrtnoe by withholding
' topffita, Mi ploying that the,
'•be welcome* with bl«*df heodt to hoe.
Ilabie gmTte,” they neterlheleta tUOggled to
their exeluive one, gvl only the
n held by ua, lat elto thee# that
| might till to oar atrano at the nMwgneat of our
itriotion, thalilerery or inroluntary territadt, ! - ru **. “d tbo eohioromoeta of oer diplomacy,
exccjft for crime, thould bo prohibited in all j they tuccoedod in excluding tlartry
Mel 1 from Oregon, and aba eadt.rorod to meka
ad with aialorly aflaoUon end * gn
the f.Tnrt which the South had
the waa ic<rwl*d upo* a*
illed ! Wo were told that
oiled tlarary, and that tfc* could Mt he
edited except upon coodillaaa degrading te
the equality «f her Southern aiatere.
polled to nuccutah, aad Mlasouri waa reWt
except upon tba hard and uncnaetltvtlowa! re.
that, territory tw^th ef «certain geographical 11™* »pd ah* eqdaarored
line—a rcatriction wbichalarmed thefeeraaod alarer, excluaion from all tba Urritoriea tha
sued Vim apprahenalon, -IWUrlWr WW W >—**«*— * «PHtr« carrying on thewar.
tha night,” the wifoat and moat tigaciout pa- j T1 >* nxelwjoo from Oregon waa aequiaaeed in
triota of tU land. But onr degradation waa “ nd * f P raW *<> bnenute the South believed from
not cotnpieio—Iho cup of our humiliation had' j geographical petition nf the country, and
to bn drained to tba dreg*. 8a opputad vara I tl “ character of the climate, there waa nothing
theao men to a .ecogoitioa ia any form or to ! practical in the queation.
any extant of our righta, that before tha ink ! Tb “ * «"l*lliatoiy hut mintakan policy.
which reoorded ibis so called compromise was
scarcely dry, they violated, If they did Dot re
pudiate, their own proposition, and a second
time kep‘t this star from our federal oonsUlla-
tion. The pretext seised upon to effect this
object waa most extraordinary. The Constitu
tion of that 8tate contained a provision to pro-
It was not the policy that determined the ac
tio& of our fathers under aiosilftr eircntnsUn
ces. The tax upon tea was not oppressive,—
they would have felt little inoooveaieooe in
paying ft, bat It was tribute exacted by a gov
ernment in which they had no voice. And
rather than submit to the imputation it# pay
vent th. introduction of a free negro element “•** would h *™ implied, they flaw to Uteir
in her bordora. Thia, it waa pretended, waa a | xrmaand .indicated their righta atthaexpenaa
denial of the righta of oitiaeni of tome of tha I »t their blood and treaaure. But oonoaaaiona
State., and conecqtienlly a violation of that j did not aatiafy their cupidity-th.tr appetite
clause of the Constitution of the United States
which provides that the "citisena of each
State shall be entitled to all privileges and im
munities of citizens in the several States."—
But as monstrous and unfounded as was this
claim, it would have been successful but for
the indomitable courage, matchless eloquence,
and consumste statesmanship of Hkmrt Olsv,
who resorted to the device of transferring this
question from the decision of Congress to the
determination of the President of the United
States, and insteed of comiug into the Union
In the ordinary manner by act of Congress,
Missouri was admitted by Executive procla
mation. All thia did not appease the insatia
ble appetite of our Northern foea. Our power
had to be limited, and our influence in the
Government destroyed to enable them fully to
compass their euds. The agitation was kept
ap by resolution# introduced into Congress to
sanctiou, and by artful attempts to draw from
the Supreme Court of the United States an
opinion approving this outrage. Our people
determined to abandon this hopeless contest
Congress, and resort to their Slate Govern
ments for redress. Gov. Troup, after noticing
attempts, alledged tbat we compromised
our digaity by discussing the question, and
having declared the "argument exhausted,"
•jured us "to stand by our arms'* The
Federal Executive and Congress from past ex
perience of his determination and spirit, knew
this was no idle ruebacu, and that they had to
deal with a ruler and people who would not
readily yield a position they had deliberately
taken The check given by this stern deter
mination was only momentary in the life of
a nation—faith was broken with one sovereign
State through her treaty stipulations wilh the
Federal Government.
Ad attempt was made to inl1i**iioe the legis
lation of another, aud compel her submission
to the most onerous impositions aud burthens
by Federal troope. It was then discovered that
tho Constitution was not a a compact, but form
ed a consolidated government, and upon this
perverted view of our institutions, the liberties
of this country would have perished, had not
the clear discrimination, the great analytic
powers and unsurpassed reasoning of John C.
Calhoun been prossed into our service. With
heroic courage he breasted the storin, and sin
gle and unaided, except by the powers of truth,
of justice and of right. Constitutional freedom
triumphed in his person over the combin
ed powers of the Federal Government; the ar
tifice, education and talent of the North—the
Uucb of bia blade, like the spear of Ithuriel,
caused the fiend to tremble, and for a time al
layed the demon. The cloven foot soon again
displayed itself. Excuses to justify outrages
are never wanting, and the inventive resource!
of our Northern friends, when they seek to as
sail our righta or drain our substance, are in
exhaustible. They become suddenly enamored
of the right of petition—devoted to the liberty
of tho press and the freedom of speech, and in
order to test whether these justly prized rights
were in danger, flooded Congress with a batch
of incendiary petitions, praying the abolition
of slavery in the District of Columbia, the forts,
arsenals, dock yards and territories, and the
iterdiction of the trade in slaves between the
State#. The signers of these petitions—those
who were prominently put forward in thii ag
itation—were without talent and destitute of
influence. They were only the advano# guard
of the main army which was lying in ambush.
They are treated with neglect if not with scorn
grew on what it fed—and they pursued the
tame policy in referenoe to the remaining ter
ritory. They only flailed in the application of
their meana—to succeed in effecting their ends
by expedients, if not so bold and offensive, el
most, If not quite, as effective. Through the
agency of a horde attracted to the Pacific shores,
from every clime and country, of every com
plexion and tongue, in violation of the lawsol
the land, they seized upon the mineral treas
ures of California, and assembling themselves
in Convention at the invitation of a military
officer, a servaut of the general government,
formed a Constitution by which your labor was
excluded from employment in the richest mines
of the e .rth; and as a reward for their disobe
dience and contempt of right, and in defiance
of law, prevented themselves and boldly de
manded admission into the Union upon terms
of equality with the other States j and but for
tbeir avowed determination to apply alike
fraudulent and violent process to the remain
der of the territory obtained by the treaty of
Gaudaloupe Hidalgo, it is to be greatly feared
tbat the government would have complied with
this demand. But the 8outh having suffered
from the active operations of "the underground
railroads" in spiriting away her slaves, desired
a more effectual remedy for the return of these
fugitives, and in a spirit of devotion to the Un
ion, for which she had made heavy sacrifices,
not only gave up her rights in California, but
also consented to the abolition of the slave
traffic in the District of Columbia, and appro
priated $10,000,000 from the common treasury
to purchase, for Northern settlement, 40,000
square miles of territory from Texas, which,
by the terms of the resolutions of annexation,
had been solemnly devoted to our use. She got
only in return a fugitive-slave law, which haa
never been observed and enforced as it should
have been, but which has been trampled under
foot by Northern mobs, and nullified by North
ern courts, executives and legislatures. Our
citizens, in pursuit of their rights under tbat
law, have been murdered in cold bio >d, or been
subjected to degrading confinement and associ
ation in penitentiaries with the vagabonds and
felons that fill those prisons. It is also said
that we obtained a recognition of the doctrine
of non-intervention in the territorial govern
ments then formed. This, however, in the
opinion of many of our ablest statesmen and
constitutional lawyers, is doubtful.
In this compromise the South, for the sake of
peace, and in the hope of allaylug agitation,
again acquiesced. Georgia, with other of her
Southern Asters did so reluctantly, and only up
on conditions which, at the time, met the un
qualified approval and warm applause of all peo
ple, both at the North and South, who now claim
to be conservative. Georgia's people, iu con
vention assembled, resolved that they would
“ resist even as a last resort to the dlsraptlon of
every tie that bound them to tho Union” any
attempt to impair or abolish the right of prop
erty in slaves in the District of Colnmbea, and
other places over which the federal government
had exclusive Jurisdiction ; tlic rejection of any
State applying for admission Into the Union, be
cause of the recognition of slavery In her con-
ttitution ; any interference with the slave trade
between the States, and any failure to execute
fhithfully the fugitive slave law; aud for a time
we were encouraged with the belief that there
conditions would be observed.
[To 6e continued.!
P&- The following letter shed* some light on
the subject of the surrender, by Gen. Twiggs,
But John C. Calhoun again saw the elemente I of the Forts and ArsenaN to the Stats of Texas:
of their power, and warned his countryman
against their insidious approaches—he elearly
predicted each step that we would take in our
progress to ruin ; and so identical are hia vati
cinations with the circumstances that now
surround ns. that one ignorant of the facts un
der which these oracles were uttered, would
Execctivk DErAnr.uK.NT, Austin. Texas. )
January ‘JO. l!HH. f
Major-Grnvrat. i>. E. Twims, Commanding
Department oi Texas—Dtor General: The pres
ent pressure of important events necessarily in
duces prompt action on the part of all public func
tionaries. In this view of the matter, 1 send to
you General J. M. Smith, of thia State, on a
tuppot. that ht «» recording tb. .rent, of ! ^oOdrotitl untt.oo.u, know wb.t in the pre
' ^ * ent crisis, you consider it your duty to do a* to
maintaining in behalf ol the Federal Govern
ment or passing over to the Stale the possession
of the torts, arsenals, and public property within
this State. And also if a demand for the pos
session of the seme is made bv the Executive,
you are authorized, or it would conform to your
sense of duty, to ptaoe in poeseswon of the au
thorities of the tflate the forts, arms, munitions,
•ad property el the Federal Govefnment on (he
order of the Executive to an officer of the State
empowered to Deceive and receipt for the same.
This course i* suggested by the fact that infor
mation has reached the Executive that an effort
will be made by an unauthorised mob to take
forcibly and appropriate (he public stores and
property to uses of their own, assuming to act
on behalf of the State.
Any arrangements made with you by Gen.
Smith will be sanctioned and approved by me.
And should you require any assistance to aid
you in raaisitftg the copteaplated and unauth
orized attack upon tho public property, dec., and
to placa the same in possession of the State au
thorities, you are authorized to call on the May
or and citisenh of San Antonio for such assist
ance P* you may deem necessary.
I will ftope to hear from you. General, through
my confidential agent. Gen. Smith, as soon as
he 1*« *•«* lH bo*o» *f 1 co**r«MM b »o«
on metiers embraced in the present epoch of
our natfepal iJEfere.
t am, uoneral, very truly, Ac,
kfifi. Tha small pox fe.provoWng ift Lyneh.
burg, Ylrglftla, lx aa e^dumfe fey*. . t
these limss. H# partially succeeded in his
remedies by semiring a rule which prohibited
the reception aud consideration of these peti
tions, and the passage of ao ant making it pe
nal to circulate through the mails sueh docu
ments and prints aa the laws oi any of the
States forbid. But the endtevor which be made
to declare the rights of the States upon the
subject, and to prescribe the duties of the gen
eral government in relation thereto, be Wis not
successful, and failing ia this, these fanatics
whose ardor no defeat oould crush* took fresh
•ourage—their numbers began to multiply, and
their iufluenoe to strengthen with their numer
ical increase. Ambitltue parties sought to pro
pitiate them, aad.pvaiiing themselves of their
position, they would by Ibelr rotes cause tba
triumph of that faction which waa moetHkdly
to increase their power. In this mode they
obtained influence to remove the bearfernfeich
and once having gotten admission there, their
Inflammatory doctrines found a way, at tke
public expense, to the popular nhd fiheohgh
the printed proses tinge ef that body. Ujfon
the eaooxettoo of Tofts* thoy ran owed &o
.PWiK Nartfroen mind #ooon-
eon Ud to apply tho Mtowad eortafetfen tothat
Items From tb* Unglleh Pr
The Loodon ‘Star’ of the 19ih j
Ih/lTfr. CoJid^rmioift e^Vdiifior ii
l*Hois coMfrct Th|folloj|ngp the\
_ J td
pose a mediator. Haviog been ooosulte
the aubjeet of the disruption of the Union by ! HARKUK ANQLAtH^—
some of hit numerous friends on the other
aide of the Atlantic, ho suggested that they
should choose the Swiss Confederal ion as an
nfbitraiof- This fact waa communicated to
M. Fomrod a mem* er of the Federal Counoil.
nor could have been done. If ibe American
Government should elaim the mediation « , i
Switzerland, the Confederation would no doubt j
give the proposal the consideration it merit#, <
but.it iauot probable tpat such wiK be tha case ,
The London ‘Daily News’ say a:
Tho Great Eastern is to leave Eng land the 1
first week In Mfireh for Norfolk, Virginia,
where she has been guarantied a cargo, l
chiefly of Cotloo, for England, the freight !
of which will amount to $75,000. Mr. Train, i
of Button haa had an interview with the Rig't .
Hon. T. Milner Gibeen, on Monday, at the of- |
fioe of the Board of Trade, and submitted a
model of a street railway.
The London ‘Ezaminer’ says:' i
England haa already lost 12,000,000 in ax i
perimentiog upon oceanic cables ; an *x
ORGANDIES,
PRINTED JACONETS,
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PRINTS.
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GINGHAMS,
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<tr., in
dteidwlljr of opinion th«t • North AiUnitowblc | bTiuTd'for* ‘ ,ompl,t *
to brief tbs Old and New Worlds together by .
the route of Scotland, the Faroe islands, Ice- J CA8H,
land, Greenland and Labrador, over teas in- j f »
fejied by icebergs aud ice bound ooaste, fe a ' at as low prices as Goode have ever be* it
hopeless project that will noi be and ought not tored. REACH * ROOVt
be attempted. March 4, 1861.
Delusion.
It seems to be impossible for people at tba
North to realize (he true condition ot things at
the South. Of eourse no one expeete the ul
tra Black Republicans to admit that there is
any serious cause of appiehensioa fur the safe
ly of the “glorious Union.” They are so be
sotted whh ignotance of the South, and fsnat-
ioel hatred of our institutions, aed are so de
luded end blinded by a false estimate ef the
soefel condition, the reeourceeand the charac
ter of the Southern people, that nothing like
reason or justice—uot to mention the observ
anee of constitutional obligations—oould be
expeoted at their hands. But we bed eappos
ed that outside of this Infamous horde of fa
natice, the mass of the Northern people bad a
just appreciation of (he revolution at the South.
Wt know (hat a portion of them have, and that
they have raised their voieee continually
agaiuat (be causes which led to the present
condition of things, and which are rapidly
hurrying ue into a woree. We have been sur
prised, however, to dieeover lately by some
newspaper articles, and also by oouveraatioas
with persona direoily from the North, that a
great many of the conservative and moderate
men of the North will not look upon the revo
lution ee anything more thaa a mete tempora
ry expedient to bully the Black Republicans
into terms ; and if that falls to secure the
aired object (hat the South will give in after
awhile. They think that the Oot:on States,
even, are r.ot in earnest, and that they will re
turn to the Union in a short time. They think
the Border States ere only making a show of
resistance, and that they have no idea of aben-
doning the Union, whether any of the eompro
misee demanded by them are granted or not.
The fatal error of all thia lint in the tupposi
lion tbat the people of the South are indiffer
ent to the inauguration of Blaok Republican
principles in the administration of the govern
ment, and that it is only the poiit cians who
are making all the noise. There never Was a
greater mistake than this, aod to a person
well informed as to the truo cbaraoler of the
revolution it seemainoredible that there should
be sueh a mistake. As to the Confederate
States, it is simply childish aod absurd to sup
pose tbat they intend to re uuite with the
Black Republican States of the North. Tbat
will never be done. And if the Border States
are ever driven from the Union, as seems in
evitable, they will be the last to return. There
is no trifling in this matter anywhere at the
South. The people are in earnest, and in the
Border Slates the movement towards eeoculon
has been tremendously accelerated by the re
jection, first, of the Crittenden propositions,
then of the Pease Conference propositions, and
last and worst, by Abe Lincoln’s disgusting
exudation of hypocrisy, duplicity, cunning and
tyranny which took plaee on the 4tb March
from the East portico of the Net ions! Capitol.
Uuleaa Lincoln baoke square down from his
inaugural address without any qualifiwatfea
what aver—and we have not the most remote
idea that he will then, notwithstanding her
■low pace, and her “ noble conservatism,”
Ac., &c., he may, in counting the States over
whioh he ia to be President, count Xorth Car
olina out.— Wilmington Herald.
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